Interested in exploring being a study participant? 

We are no longer recruiting new participants for data collection. If you think you might be interested in participating in data collection in future studies, please send an email via the Contact Us Page, and we will reach out to you in the future if we resume data collection in a new study. If you are curious what that might be like, read this overview document that describes what PAAWS participants did. 

We are indebted to the people who have already participated in the study. Thanks to the participants for making science possible!

Are you a programmer?

If you are a programmer interested in open-source development, we use two software tools in our research. One is a custom video-annotation/labeling tool for quickly annotating front-facing video data: Video Annotator, written in Python (Send a note via the Contact Us page if you want access to this repository). The other is a tool for visualizing week-long datasets of raw accelerometer data: Signaligner Pro, written in JavaScript. If you are a strong programmer in Python or JavaScript and would like to help the project, there are plenty of programming tasks you could contribute to as a remote, open-source developer.

Programmers with experience in machine learning who would like to use the dataset to develop and test new algorithms are also welcome to do so, either independently or by contacting us. 

Are you a student at Northeastern University?

If you are a student at Northeastern University interested in research, there are several ways to get involved, either by helping with software, data annotation and data munging, or outreach. Reach out via the Contact Us page if you have the time and interest.